X800XL + Lost Coast Pack

[AndyOdish]

Put simply,
Lost cost requires latest hardware - do you guys think it will work on the X800?
I read on a thread somewhere it will need Pixel Shader 3 so basically there isn;t even an ATI card available (to consumers) that will be able to play the Lost Coast.

Please tell me it will run as I have just shelled out £200 squid on a new X800xl!!!

 

[Sanada]

You'll be able to run it but not at the "High Quality" setting which requires Pixel Shader 3.0.

Apparently, only some of the latest nVidia cards (6800) use Pixel Shader 3.0 but I'm not sure. I've got a 9700 Pro so I'm sh*t out, but I'm to bothered.

 

[duffers20]

I think the 6600 and the 6800 range of cards all use pixel shader 3.0. I really need to upgrade my gfx card :/

 

[giant384]

all geforce 6 series cards do ps3.0 if u havent noticed

 

[J_Tweedy]

you'll pretty much need a 6800gt or above or whatever the next Ati card is to run the Lost Coast at high quality smoothly

 

[Asus]

Why not wait til they release benchmarks...Oh well.
It will run it very well but you won't be able to use the highest quality setting.

 

[Kazuki_Fuse]

I reckon Lost Coast would run hdr on a plain x800 and up. Of course it's only speculation which is worth squat. I doubt a 9800pro could run it with hdr enabled though.

 

[J_Tweedy]

yeah im sure it will, just without that ps3.0 which will probly not make a HUGE difference. Purely speculation again, of course.

 

[Dead-Inside]

I believe the highest ATI shader, currently present, is 2.2. This is like the first game to actually USE 3.0. There's not any major difference otherwise.

 

[holydeadpenguins]

HDR does NOT require sm 3.0. Everyone seems to get that idea since Far Cry's method of hdr is only supported by nVidia cards with sm 3.0 support.

 

[JellyWorld]

200 squid?

 

[hungryduck]

woot woot, my 150 dollar XFX 6600GT will be able to play lost coast on high, and a $500 X850 PE won't. *chuckles*

 

[Shakermaker]

200 squid?

You need a mighty big wallet for that. And those bastards sting too!

 

[DrDevin]

woot woot, my 150 dollar XFX 6600GT will be able to play lost coast on high, and a $500 X850 PE won't. *chuckles*

Same situation here I sure am glad I got a 6600GT as every developer has used the SM3 (nvidia) implimintation which "definately should" provide an image quality improvement.

 

[Gazelleboy]

Same situation here I sure am glad I got a 6600GT as every developer has used the SM3 (nvidia) implimintation which "definately should" provide an image quality improvement.

SM3 has no IQ gain at all, its purely for a slight performance boost

 

[DrDevin]

SM3 has no IQ gain at all, its purely for a slight performance boost

You are mostly true. As SM3 itself does not improve image quality but it enforces hardware specs (32FP) which then allows effects such as HDR (which is currently done using OpenEXR (by Industrial Light & Magic). As this is the current path for HDR so far everyone has used OpenEXR.

So in a way SM3 does not make any image quality improvements but it does raise image quality unintentionally which is what I was talking about. It makes things look better but actually they dont look better because of SM3. :rolling:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/partners/shadermodel30_NVIDIA.mspx
http://www.openexr.com/

 

[holydeadpenguins]

woot woot, my 150 dollar XFX 6600GT will be able to play lost coast on high, and a $500 X850 PE won't. *chuckles*

Were you not listening to me? ANY CARD WITH FULL DX 9 SUPPORT WILL SUPPORT HDR. Only far cry requires SM 3.0 for it's hdr.

 

[AndyOdish]

200 squid?

Just a nod to Ali G

200 squid = £200!

 

[AmishSlayer]

So wait does a regular 6800 have SM3 or do you have to get the GT to do that?

 

[giant384]

omg dose no one pay attention the other ppls most all geforce 6 series cards can sm3.0 but the 6800s are the best to run with the lost coast since they are faster